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Joe Morgenstern has been the film critic of the Wall Street Journal since 1995. He was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times before he became a theater and movie critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1959. He moved to Newsweek as movie critic in 1965 and was a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner from 1983 to 1988.

He has written television scripts, including The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and several episodes of Law & Order. Mr. Morgenstern is co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics.

A graduate of Lehigh University, he won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

FROM Joe Morgenstern

I Feel Pretty

I Feel Pretty

3 MIN, 32 SEC Apr 20, 2018

The Rider

The Rider “The Rider” has an unerring feel for its subject, a young cowboy struggling against his fate in the American West. That’s all the more remarkable because this beautiful film was written and directed by Chloé Zhao, a Chinese woman born in Beijing.

3 MIN, 26 SEC Apr 13, 2018

A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place “A Quiet Place” is exactly 90 minutes long, or short. It may not make the masterpiece cut, but this little horror thriller is enormously entertaining, because it’s organized around a terrific idea—the necessity of absolute silence.

3 MIN, 38 SEC Apr 06, 2018

Ready Player One

Ready Player One This new film is impressive, and technically cool, but also emotionally cool. There’s a fundamental mismatch between artist and material.

3 MIN, 34 SEC Mar 30, 2018

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs “Isle of Dogs” is clever, funny, startlingly beautiful, politically acute and surprisingly heartfelt.

3 MIN, 40 SEC Mar 23, 2018

The Death Of Stalin

The Death Of Stalin All the same, “The Death of Stalin” gets off lots of clever jokes—finding a doctor for the comatose Stalin is hard because all the good ones are in the gulag. And it gets at political and historical truths on its own terms. Power doesn’t have to corrupt, the film suggests; many come to it pre-corrupted, as well as ignorant, fatuous and heedless.

3 MIN, 45 SEC Mar 09, 2018

Red Sparrow

Red Sparrow It’s the sort of tossed-off magic that Jennifer Lawrence has worked so often in the past, and that I hope she will work again.

3 MIN, 28 SEC Mar 02, 2018

Annihilation

Annihilation “Annihilation” is new. It wants us to think, and feel, while we’re having fun.

3 MIN, 32 SEC Feb 23, 2018

A Fantastic Woman

A Fantastic Woman Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” is Chile’s entry for this year’s foreign-language Oscar.

7 MIN, 16 SEC Feb 02, 2018

Hostiles

Hostiles A story of redemption that will stand the test of time.

3 MIN, 24 SEC Jan 19, 2018

Paddington 2

Paddington 2 When the little guy with the floppy red hat and a fondness for orange marmalade first appeared on the feature screen three years ago this month, he seemed like a gift from the movie gods in a traditionally lean season. Now he and his creators have outdone themselves. One lovely sequence finds Paddington inside the London of an antique pop-up book, but lovely sequences keep popping up with remarkable frequency.

7 MIN, 10 SEC Jan 12, 2018

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool Annette Bening can tell you everything you need to know about her character in a single unfolding scene. It’s always rewarding to see her in action, even though her latest movie, “Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool,” doesn’t measure up to her performance.

3 MIN, 28 SEC Dec 28, 2017

The Post

The Post The most important movie opening this holiday season is The Post.

6 MIN, 51 SEC Dec 22, 2017

The Last Jedi

The Last Jedi The Last Jedi starts where The Force Awakens left off. The rebels are in full retreat, and Rey has discovered Luke Skywalker as a monkish hermit on a faraway island of a really faraway planet. The question is what comes next...

3 MIN, 32 SEC Dec 15, 2017

I, Tonya

I, Tonya Impressive in its own right, the movie I, Tonya is also a cure for all those feel-good films about innately noble athletes who manage to triumph over impossible odds.

3 MIN, 35 SEC Dec 08, 2017

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a flow of sumptuous images set to music, a flood tide of feelings with a mythic undertow..

3 MIN, 32 SEC Dec 01, 2017

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